Best movies of 2005

Actors : Jeff Daniels, Cicely Tyson, AnnaSophia Robb, Eva Marie Saint,
Directors : Wayne Wang,

A mischievous dog befriends a lonely young girl in a new town and helps her make new friends.

Actors : Mya, Portia de Rossi, Christina Ricci, Jesse Eisenberg,
Directors : Wes Craven,

A werewolf loose in Los Angeles changes the lives of three young adults who, after being mauled by the beast, learn they must kill it in order to avoid becoming werewolves themselves.

Actors : Emmanuelle Devos, Vincent Lindon, Mathieu Amalric, Hippolyte Girardot,
Directors : Emmanuel Carrère,

Marc is sitting in his bath one morning and asks his wife, "how would you feel if I shaved off my mustache?" She doesn't think it's a great idea, for the 15 years they've been married, ...

Actors : Nona Gaye, Clifton Powell, Idris Elba, Boris Kodjoe,
Directors : Rob Hardy,

This is a story about a successful young R&B singer that has an unlikely homecoming when his father, the bishop, becomes ill.

Actors : Til Schweiger, Eddie Griffin, Rob Schneider, Jeroen Krabbé,
Directors : Mike Bigelow,

Deuce is tricked again into man-whoring by T.J., only in Amsterdam while other man-whores are being murdered in his midst.

Actors : Lucy Tulugarjuk, Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Philippe Martz,

Fiona, Julien and their two clone-like children live a life appropriate to the robots they have become, in a style-less, cheerless suburb somewhere in the flatlands of French-speaking ...

Actors : Nicholas Tse, Hiroyuki Sanada, Cecilia Cheung, Dong-gun Jang,
Directors : Kaige Chen,

Empowered by the love of a slave (Jang), a royal concubine (Cheung) is given the chance to make an extraordinary decision.

Actors : LL Cool J, Mekhi Phifer, Ray Liotta, Jolene Blalock,
Directors : Wayne Beach,

A district attorney is involved in a 24-hour showdown with a gang leader and is, at the same time, being manipulated by an attractive assistant district attorney and a cryptic stranger.

Actors : Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Paul Sedaris,
Directors : Paul Dinello,

A prequel to the critically acclaimed series featuring Jerri Blank, a forty-six-year-old ex-junkie, ex-con who returns to high school in a bid to start her life over.

Actors : Simon Armstrong, Timothy Spall, Eddie Marsan, Juliet Stevenson,
Directors : Adrian Shergold,

The life and times of Albert Pierrepoint - Britain's most prolific hangman.

Actors : Karl Jacob, Tom Noonan, Vanessa Horneff, Sean Reid,
Directors : Ti West,

Part of a "special" late-nite television program...Four friends on their way to a wedding find themselves marooned on a mysterious farm. Creatures of the night awaken and the undead rise, as a night of relentless horror...Begins!

Actors : Nikolay Spiridonov, Nikolay Reutov, Yuriy Itskov, Mariya Kuznetsova,
Directors : Andrey Kravchuk,

Set in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family.

Actors : Colm Feore, Robert Loggia, Christian Slater, Selma Blair,
Directors : Harvey Kahn,

A political thriller steeped in illegal oil trading, the Russian Mafia, and governmental cover-ups.

Actors : Chloë Sevigny, Mabel Adams, Shawn Ashmore, Lucy Liu,
Directors : Thom Fitzgerald,

A three-paneled look at the worldwide AIDS crisis: in Montreal, a porn actor (Ashmore) schemes to pass his mandatory blood test; a young nun (Sevigny) makes a personal sacrifice for the benefit of a South African village; in rural China, a black market operative (Liu) posing as a goverment-sanctioned blood drawer jeopardizes an entire village's safety.

Actors : Diane Venora, Michael Bowen, Monty Lapica, Greg Germann,
Directors : Monty Lapica,

A pill-popping mom has her drug-abusing teen son abducted into a private intervention facility that means well.

Actors : Ice Cube, Nia Long, Aleisha Allen, Philip Bolden,
Directors : Brian Levant,

Nick Persons is a selfish player who owns a collectables sports shop in Portland, Oregon. Everything in his life is perfect until he meets Suzanne Kingston, a business woman who has ...

Actors : Christian von Aster, Waltraud Witte, André Hennicke, Norman Reedus,
Directors : Christian Alvart,

Long wanted serial killer Gabriel Engel gets arrested in a spectacular police strike. Small town cop Michael Martens travels to the big city to interrogate him. He associates a brutal ...

Actors : Daisy Ang, Bill Buell, Dick Cavett, Rachel Covey,
Directors : Matt Mulhern,

A down-on-his-luck divorced father struggles to get his life and family back together before it's too late.

Actors : Ashley Johnson, Gregory Smith, Jordana Brewster, David Moscow,
Directors : Rick Rosenthal,

In the shadow of a family loss, the youngest son develops interest in an attractive high school classmate, paying little mind of her athletic boyfriend or of his own female best friend.

Actors : Abdellatif Kechiche, Robin Wright, Aasif Mandvi, Élodie Bouchez,
Directors : Jeff Stanzler,

Against the anxieties and fears of post-9/11 America, an Arab cab driver picks up a troubled professional woman with unexpected results.